Don’t Get Fooled Twice

Much has been written regarding how to conduct post-project assessments with the goal of gathering best practices and lessons learned. In future blogs I will add my own ideas and experiences regarding this critical process as well. But before we get there, I don’t think near enough has been written (or has stuck with us) regarding how to make sure an organization doesn’t learn the same lesson multiple times. Unfortunately I have seen this happen on too many occasions in the past, so here are some of my tips to prevent an organization from getting fooled twice.